NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE is hereby given pursuant to and by virtue of the authority vested in the Trustee, Pill & Pill, PPLC, by that certain Deed of Trust dated December 14, 2005, executed by Borrower(s), William Z. Richards and Cynthia K Richards, to Mitchell Lee Klein, the Trustee of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Brooke County, West Virginia, in Book 446, at Page 354. At the time of the execution of the Deed of Trust, this property was reported to have a mailing address of 174 Tartan Dr, Follansbee, WV 26037. The borrower(s) defaulted under the Note and Deed of Trust and the Trustee has been instructed to foreclose under the Deed of Trust. Accordingly, the Trustee will sell the following described property to the highest bidder at the front door of the Courthouse of Brooke County, in Wellsburg, West Virginia, on the following date:
August 20, 2025, at 10:02 a.m.
Situate in Follansbee District (formerly Cross Creek District), Brooke County, West Virginia, more particularly bounded and described as follows:
All that certain parcel of land Situate in Follansbee District (formerly Cross Creek District, Brooke County, West Virginia, known and designated as Lot No. 31 Highland Hills Plan No. 1, the plat of said subdivision being of record in the office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Brooke County, West Virginia, in Plat Book No. 2, at page No. 40.
TERMS OF SALE:
1) The property will be conveyed in an “AS IS” physical condition by Deed containing no warranty, express or implied, subject to the Internal Revenue Service right of redemption, all property taxes, prior Deeds, liens, reservations, encumbrances, restrictions, rights-of-ways, easements, covenants, conveyances and conditions of record in the Clerk’s office or affecting the subject property.
2) The Purchaser shall be responsible for the payment of the transfer taxes imposed by the West Virginia Code § 11-22-1.
3) The Beneficiary and/or the Servicer of the Deed of Trust and Note reserve the right to submit a bid for the property at sale.
4) The Trustee reserves the right to continue sale of the subject property from time to time by written or oral proclamation, which continuance shall be in the sole discretion of the Trustee.
5) The Trustee shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the property to vacate said property, and any personal property and/or belongings remaining at the property after the foreclosure sale will be deemed to constitute ABANDONED PROPERTY AND WILL BE DISPOSED OF ACCORDINGLY.
6) The total purchase price is payable to the Trustee within thirty (30) days of the date of sale, with ten (10%) of the total purchase price payable to the Trustee at sale.
Pill & Pill, PLLC, Substitute Trustee
By: Richard A. Pill, Member
Pill & Pill, PLLC
85 Aikens Center
Edwin Miller Boulevard
P.O. Box 440
Martinsburg, WV 25402
(304) 263-4971
[email protected]
BCR 08/01 – 08/08 – 08/15/25